]]>Back in January, Deadmau5 confirmed he was hard at work on a brand new Cube design, apparently called the ‘Other Cube’. Unlike the other four iterations of his iconic stage setup, this Cube would be used within smaller, more intimate club venues.

It didn’t take too long for the new Cube to come together, and over the last week the Canadian producer has been giving it a run at shows in Aspen and Utah’s Park City. The Cube — which he’s now calling Cube 0.5 — is indeed a hell of a lot smaller, but features the same visual tricks as the others.

The Other Cube isn’t the only new feature in Deadmau5’s sets. In his recent run of shows, he’s also been throwing in his new orchestral remix of his mega hit ‘Strobe’. We’ve been hearing bits and pieces of it through his Twitch livestreams, but this is the first time we’ve heard it in full.

Listen to it below, and see the Other Cube in action while you’re at it.

]]>The trailer for the “best electronic music film of our time” has finally landedhttp://inthemix.junkee.com/what-we-started-trailer/158093
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 03:00:36 +0000http://inthemix.junkee.com/?p=158093It's been called "the premier film on dance music history".

]]>Last June we got our first glimpse at What We Started, the new doco that examines the three decades of dance music history through the diverging careers of techno legend Carl Cox and EDM upstart Martin Garrix.

It’s an ambitious endeavour, and the film is already picking up rave reviews following a preview screening at LA Film Festival last year, with Noctural Timeslabelling it the “best electronic music film of our time.”

The full-length trailer for the doco has now dropped, featuring snippets of interviews with dance veterans like Paul Oakenfold, Moby, Pete Tong, Tiësto — and of course Carl Cox and Martin Garrix. More interestingly, the clip demonstrates the tension that exists between some of dance’s veterans and the new guard of EDM stars.

“Why is a 17-year-old the fucking face of dance music? What the fuck?” Seth Troxler asks, while British legend Paul Oakenfeld has a similar outlook: “16/17-year-old kid makes a record. He has no experience ever of playing in front of a crowd…and they book him. Why?”

What We Started will officially premiere at Ultra Music Festival next month in Miami, and will land on Netflix in June. Watch the trailer below.

]]>If you were searching for something to pump you up this Monday morning, look no further. During Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show over the weekend, Porter Robinson delivered a crammed minimix under new alias Virtual Self — and it packs a punch.

Robinson squeezes 13 tracks into the five-minute mix, including Burial’s ‘Temple Sleeper’, Pryda’s ‘Stay With Me’, and Hybrid’s ‘Finished Symphony’. He throws in a couple of his own as well: the single ‘Ghost Voices’ and EP cut ‘A.I.ngel (Become God)’. Check out the full tracklist below.

]]>Diplo and Alison Wonderland just dropped new tracks so your Friday listening is sortedhttp://inthemix.junkee.com/diplo-alison-wonderland/158049
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:56:36 +0000http://inthemix.junkee.com/?p=158049Thank you for these gifts.

]]>There are plenty of new singles doing the rounds today — including efforts from Canberra’s SAFIA, and Cosmo’s Midnight — but two of the biggest are coming our way from Alison Wonderland and Diplo.

Yesterday, Wonderland announced that her second album Awake — the followup to 2015’s Run — was finally on its way. We didn’t get a release date, but we did get a look at the album’s demonic cover— and a promise of a new single called ‘Church’, which has landed today.

“[‘Church’] is about a pocket of my life where I got out of something that was holding me down for a long time,” Wonderland told triple j earlier in the week. “I was around people that weren’t good for me; toxic people who were not treating me well, borderline emotionally abusive and it brought me down to feeling quite weak. ‘Church’ was the song that triggered me to get out of it.”

Get your ears around ‘Church’ below.

Superstar producer Diplo is also gearing up for a new release: his California EP, which is due to land next month. We don’t know much about it, except that it could contain tracks like his summer anthem ‘Get It Right‘, and his recent collaboration with Cashmere Cat and Tory Lanez.

It’ll almost certainly contain this new one, a big cut called ‘Look Back’ that features Virginian rapper DRAM (of ‘Broccoli’ fame.) The track was a bit of a team effort, with Californian singer Tinashe coming in for backing vocals, and Diplo’s Jack Ü partner Skrillex coming in to hang in the studio with them all.

“Signifying the second pillar of PLUR, the powerful symbol gives a nod to the unconditional appreciation and acceptance that thrives within dance music,” Insomniac events founder Pasquale Rotella said.

“Celebrated by a culture that empowers its community to grow and create unforgettable memories, Kinetic Love will bond over 400,000 Headliners together Under the Electric Sky, creating an environment of good will and beautiful, connected spirits.”

So there you go. EDC takes place at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from May 18 to 20. Tickets are on sale now.

]]>After months of teasing new music, Sydney favourite Alison Wonderland has officially announced that her second album, titled Awake, is on the way.

She dropped the news on social media yesterday, at the same time revealing the album’s slightly demonic artwork (see below.) Awake is the long-awaited followup to her 2015 debut Run, and is set to feature the supersized track ‘Happy Place‘ that she dropped out of nowhere last November.

In an interview with triple j’s Ben and Liam yesterday, Wonderland opened up about the dark themes that informed the new record — and in particular her new single ‘Church’, which drops tomorrow.

“It’s about a pocket of my life where I got out of something that was holding me down for a long time,” she said. “I was around people that weren’t good for me; toxic people who were not treating me well, borderline emotionally abusive and it brought me down to feeling quite weak. [‘Church’] was the song that triggered me to get out of it.”

“I’m not a religious person so it was a weird thing to write about but it was the first thing that came to my mind,” she added. “I felt like shouting at that person ‘I wish you would treat me like church! Praise me, make me feel like I’m worth something’.”

Awake has yet to get a release date. Reacquaint yourself with ‘Happy Place’ below.

]]>After months of renovations, Erskineville’s beloved Imperial Hotel is set to reopen next month.

The popular LGBTQ nightspot has been closed for renos since last September, following a precarious two years in which they were threatened with permanent closure by the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing. But now the venue is back, writing on their Facebook page that they’ll be kicking off proceedings with a massive weekend of parties in honour of Mardi Gras.

It gets underway on Friday March 2 with a Drag Extravaganza and Priscilla tribute show, followed by a night of cabaret, DJ sets, and Indigenous drag performances on Saturday. If you can go another night, then there’ll be a Hungover AF party on Sunday.

Best of all? There’s no lockouts to be seen.

Get up to speed with all the events here; and scope the details below.

But while the hitmaker recently flagged that we wouldn’t be seeing a Funk Wav followup anytime soon,he instead promised fans “a whole new experience” with his upcoming music in 2018. And that experience started today, with the release of ‘Nuh Ready Nuh Ready’.

The track is a collaboration with Canadian rapper and singer PARTYNEXTDOOR, who Calvin became friends with during the making of Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1.

“I didn’t really figure him out anymore working with him,” Harris told Beats 1 presenter Zane Lowe. “I just know that his pen and his voice and his delivery is, I think, amongst the best in the world.

“I worked with him on my last album and I was aware that I underused him and I felt embarrassed and ashamed from underusing him. He sang a hook on a track, I was like, ‘Come on you need to do more if you can.’ So that’s just what I did.”

]]>Gary ‘Destructo’ Richards has officially confirmed plans to launch a new cruise ship festival later this year, called Friendship.

Richards announced the plans on his Facebook page this morning, writing that he’ll be gathering all his friends (read: dance A-listers) for the maiden voyage this December.

“There is a place where my friends and I go and we do fun things-the kind of fun things that build everlasting memories that I could never put a price on and I absolutely never could because these times are priceless and irreplaceable,” he wrote.

“At the end when I look back and reminisce about these times I had and the experiences that moulded me and watered me enough to grow, I’ll think about all the friends I’ve made along the way and how I am a part of their story and they are more than all my friends. They are all my family.”

The move comes only a few months after Richards announced he would be stepping away from HARD Events — and consequently the festival Holy Ship, which he founded — to take up a role at rival organisation LiveStyle.

It didn’t appear to be an amicable split: LA Weeklyreported at the time that Live Nation (who purchased a majority stake in HARD in 2012) chose not to renew Richards’ contract with the company. They also didn’t include him on Holy Ship’s 2018 bill — a festival he’s played every year since its inception — which caused a number of top-tier DJs to publicly criticise Live Nation.

Richards first hinted at plans for a new floating festival while on stage in Brooklyn last month. Friendship will depart from Miami on December 11 and cruise for four days around the Bahamas; the departure date is only a few weeks before that of Holy Ship.

Australian pop legend and ex-Neighbours star Kylie Minogue has announced she’ll be hitting up Berlin’s notorious techno temple Berghain on her upcoming club tour. No, seriously.

The ‘Locomotion’ singer will stop at the club late next month, following performances at similar-sized clubs in London, Barcelona and Paris in support of her new album Golden. Needless to say, it’ll be her debut Berghain show.

It’s a strange booking to be sure — Berghain’s more used to techno A-listers like The Black Madonna and Marcel Dettmann – but it’s not entirely without precedent: London rapper Skepta played a show there back in 2016. And let’s be real, Kylie does have a back catalogue full of bangers like ‘On A Night Like This’ and ‘Confide In Me’.

If you’re going to be in that neck of the woods, tickets to Minogue’s Berghain show go on sale next Tuesday, February 15. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get past the doorman, Sven.